Umovo () is an uninhabited village in the municipality of Studeničani, North Macedonia.
History During the great migration movements in the region of Macedonia at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, Slavic-speaking Muslims left the Debar area for the central regions of Macedonia and established villages such as Umovo located in the Skopje area.
Demographics On the 1927 ethnic map of Leonhard Schulze-Jena, the village is shown as an Albanian village.Schultze Jena, Leonhard. Makedonien: Landschafts- und Kulturbilder. Jena, Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1927
The village when inhabited in past times had a Torbeš population. p. 126. "Еден дел од торбешката група, кои на крајот на XVII век и во почетокот на XVIII-иот, во времето на големите миграциони движења во Македонија, ја напуштило старата територија (Дебарско) и се преселило во централните области на Македонија. Така се формирале шет торбешки села во Скопско (Пагаруша, Д. Количани, Држилово, Цветово, Елово, Умово) и две Велешко (Г. Врановци и Мелница)."
The Yugoslav census of 1953 recorded 825 people of whom 815 were Turks, 6 Macedonians and 4 others. The 1961 Yugoslav census recorded 64 people, all Turks. The 1971 census recorded 17 people, all Turks. The 1981 Yugoslav census was the last to record any people as residing in the village which contained 35 inhabitants, all Turks. According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 0 inhabitants.Macedonian Census (2002), Book 5 - Total population according to the Ethnic Affiliation, Mother Tongue and Religion, The State Statistical Office, Skopje, 2002, p. 184.
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